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PPhysiography of the Valparaiso Moraine. Valparaiso Moraine at Mink Lake, north of Valparaiso, Indiana. The Valparaiso Moraine is a recessional moraine (a landform left by receding glaciers) that forms an immense U around the southern Lake Michigan basin in North America. It is a band of hilly terrain composed of glacial till and sand.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Snow Lake CDP has a total area of 1.08 square miles (2.80 km 2), of which 0.60 square miles (1.55 km 2) are land and 0.48 square miles (1.24 km 2), or 44.52%, are water. [1] The lake's outlet is at its southern end, flowing into Lake James, part of the St. Joseph River watershed flowing west to Lake ...
Valparaiso (/ ˌ v æ l p ə ˈ r eɪ z oʊ / VAL-pə-RAY-zoh), colloquially Valpo, is a city in and the county seat of Porter County, Indiana, United States. [4] The population was 34,151 at the 2020 census .
The Calumet Shoreline is an ancient shoreline of Lake Michigan located in the Lake Michigan Basin. It can be clearly seen as a sand ridge along Ridge Road south of Chicago. Closer to the lake from the Calumet Shoreline, there are the Tolleston shorelines and farther from the lake are the Glenwood Shoreline , the Tinley Moraine , and the ...
Compared to the Valparaiso Moraine, the Tinley Moraine is much narrower and occupies a similar swath, about 6 miles (10 km) closer to Lake Michigan, and passes through the communities of Flossmoor, Western Springs, and Arlington Heights. The moraine was named after the village of Tinley Park, a village southwest of Chicago that lies on the moraine.
In Michigan, lake effect snow most often tends to fall in western Upper Peninsula, along the north shore of the UP, and in the Lower Peninsula from the tip of the mitten to Indiana along Lake ...
Just under three feet of snow blanketed cities in northern Indiana last week thanks to an impressive system of snowy whirlwinds that formed over Lake Michigan.. Residents of the Great Lakes region ...
Salt Creek is a 24.0-mile-long (38.6 km) [2] tributary of the East Arm Little Calumet River that begins south of Valparaiso in Porter County, Indiana and flows north until it joins the East Arm Little Calumet River just before it exits to Lake Michigan via the Port of Indiana-Burns Waterway. [1] Map of Salt Creek Watershed